Wanderlust 2017: Weeks 3-8

For Christmas, my dear husband gave me Wanderlust 2017, "a year long journey in mixed-media and art journaling." Each week new lessons and/or activities are released. Though I've already fallen behind, I am definitely enjoying the journey. Since I shared the results of Weeks 1 & 2 with you some time ago, here's what else I've made from the lessons up to this point.

Week 3 - a lesson from Wilna Furstenburg

I bought and used acrylic inks for this lesson. I'm loving that medium!!

Week 4 - a journal page to represent January

Week 5 - working on composition and color, I completed two journal pages

Week 6 - a lesson from Amanda Grace, writing a love letter (hence the blurring).

Week 7 - a lesson from Clair Bremner

Week 8 - one activity of several was this journal page I completed yesterday.

I think learning from a variety of artists, all with their own style, is perfect for me as I'm getting to learn a variety of techniques and explore my own style.  It's a blast!

Today begins week 11 of the journey and I still have a few more activities for week 8. EEK! I've got some catching up to do, but I'm taking my time and working at my own pace. It would definitely ruin the process if I couldn't do that.

Now, to get to some house cleaning before anything else. 

Happy St. Patrick's Day and enjoy your weekend! What are your plans?

Wanderlust 2017: Weeks 1 & 2

My life has been almost completely consumed with the house renovations the last few days. I'm almost ready to give you another update (it's awesome!), but need to edit pictures first. Before I work on that, I thought I'd share the couple of items I created as part of Wanderlust 2017. In my last post, I mentioned that Pat gave me a membership to the classes as one of my Christmas gifts.

Here's the journal page I created for the first week.

For week 2, I made this canvas.

I'm pretty excited about the colors in this canvas and can't wait to hang it just as soon as the renovations come to an end.

The Wanderlust journey has been fun and given me something extra to look forward to each week. As I said before, it's the gift that just keeps giving!